dwttitto #tatc rtfß-ISHED DAILY, SEMI W EKKLY AND WEI_KLY, At No. f»ia_ Main Street, Richmond, Va. TERMS : DAILY—*6 per year; six months, A3; three months. HI.SO; 1 month, Ml cents. SEMI-WEEKLY—*2.»O per year; six months, ♦ 1 it; three months, 7- cents. WEEKLY—*I _o per year; six months, 7fl cents mS'WKi-'Kr.rand seui-wbeklt journal to I'lults at extremely low rales. f m\\n JW*fc Iflttnwl LETTER FROM FINCASTLE. Jndge llonston's Reception Politics. Fincastle, Aug. loth, 1871. To tlie Editor iif Ihe State Journal : After the flattering comment upon my last epistle, I determined for spite to inflict another of the same sort on your Honor. Our "Burg" was enlivened on the even ing of the 10th hy a re-union of gentlemen at the hospitable residence of Judge Thomas I). Houston, in commemoration of his natal hour. Could you have strolled up Main street you would never have recognized the well-trodden path of your boyhood, when you had scarcely a care to mar your hap piness, except your inabi...

jfltote gtmra. >AY KVKNINi., AUG. 22,1571 AUGLST ■■CTIfKI OF THE I'OTOM FRIIT (iROWEHrV ASSOCIATION. The Association met Tuesday, the Ist instant, at the Hoard of Trade rooms- Judge Cray presiding, P. 11. ...som, Esq., secretary. THE AMERICAN PO..IOI.OOHAL EXHI- previous meeting by the secretary, Ihe lot to the Association: "(ilad to hear your society are coming in We will mail complimentary tickets to any of your editors you may suggest, and who John M. Allan authorized to correspond wjth the president of the above named society in reference to the complimentary tickets he hail tendered, and other matters that would promote the interests of delegates and members attend ing from this association. The motion was On account of the annual pomological exhibition to beheld on the Oth, 7th tad Sth of September, the second Tuesday ii September was, at the suggestion of Mr Saul, fixed for the next monthly meetim, of the association. Major King.—ln reference to this exhibi tion, I hope th...

gpuriwl TUESDAY EVENING. AUG. 22,1871. members said that the most, rllcetual meth od, in his opinion, is to turn under clover, pens, or buckwheat. It is objected that buckwheat contributes little to the restora tion of exhausted land; clover anil pi-as arc well adapted for this purpose—the former being especially so. Curtis con tended that manure is ajways the best medicine forworn out land. In the ab sence of a fertilizer, it i.s well enough to plow deep and sow with peas and buck wheat, and turn it under when the crop has attained full growth, and then sow with rye, and in the spring seed with clover. Take off the crop of rye and leave the clover until the second year, and when it is in blossom plow that under and sow wheat or rye again and seed with clover. Treated in this way land will certainly be improved. After the second crop of rye or wheat has Tanning Sheep-Skins With the Wool On.—About every six weeks we have an inquiry as to the best method of tanning sheep-skins with th...

rtTU-SHED DAILY, SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, At -•• !>!-_ Main Street, Richmond, Va. TERMS: DAILY—*- per year: six months, AS; three months, *1.60; 1 month, B0 cents. SEMI-WEEKLY—«2.-> per year; six months, •1 2A_ three months, 7ft cents. WEEKLY—»I ..*>per year; six months, 7« cents We\T WEEKLY and SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL to rtuhs at extremely low rales. REPUBLICAN MEETING IN YORK COUNTY. Til the Editor of the State Journal. At a meeting of the Republican party of Bruton township, held pursuant to notice, on Saturday, August 19th, 1871, Mr. Whiting was called to the chair aud Mr. Frederick Mairc was appointed secretary. It was moved that Mr. E. 11. Lively, tho candidate tot the Legislature from James City and York, address the meeting upon the political issues of the day, which he did in the most satisfactory manner, and which was responded to in rounds of ap plause. No more gallant standard hearer ever smashed a lance in behalf of the Republican cause on the Peninsula. The followi...

f wring X&U |j urn al." WEDNESDAY EV--'f" . All*. _.., 1. Tl. SPIRIT OF THE PRES.H. The Albany Express says: "TlioD(.nnc racy, as far as national policy is concerned, will lie placedbotwocntwo tires—tho Novtli will not stand reaction, and llio .South will not submit to progress." The Rochester hhpreis says: "It is pret ty generally fl-fmittedby Democratic papers that there can be no defense of either 'I nui many dishonesty or K___lS rulliaiiisiu thnf will be lUteiicd'ii. in llnr eoiuiiij. political fampaignp." The Chicago _.._„,„ says : "The Ue publican journal which cudeavors to cover tip frauds committed underKeptitilican aus pices -is eitl-cr false or foolish beyond nil claim to confidence. Sensible and practical people must see by this time that the way to have honpst and patriotic administration is, iirat, te keep the Republican party pure by free discussion within its ranks ; and, f second, to keep it in power.". The Brooklyn I'niaii says: "At last accounts there were upwa...

(6.-wing £ta.c gmimat .Vi:i>.\K,Sl)AY KVEV... AUO. 33,1871 joying pu risatit associations, coml.iumg 10 aggressive tun-puses, have been recognized I,ut scarcely to tlii' extent tlie subjee !rit.. Traveling in Italy many vein , \yo visited some of the large 'dairy ns in tlie neighborhood of _orrara. In |..Tsiil among much of the low lying icalthy land, lciuarkahle for the preva lence on it of very fatal forms of anthrax in the summer season, arc fine undtilatin pasture lands, and the fields are of grea extent. We happened to stop at a farm house one fine autumn afternoon when th cows were about*to he milked. A herd o over one hundred was grazing homewards The women took their positions with stoo ,l,.se to the house, and a-s the cows ap pr..ached, names were called out which a lirst, we thought, addressed to the milk maids. Rosa, I'lorenr.a, (liulia, Sposa, an. many names, which were noted by us a the time when called out by the overseer ..r one of the women, and we were aston ishe...

Letter from the White Sulphur Sprinss. THE CIIESAPEAKII AND OHIO B. R.— THE COWPANV AT,'i*IIH _*__.IN_B-i- AMUSEMENTS, ETC. * Witm* Sot-Phot. _-_.___, \ tiroenbrier County, West Va., V August'JOtfi, JB7l. . J All visitors to this Wilt, ringplft. c should leave the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at Staunton, and take the morning train to the "White," in order to set' Hi.- prand, in deed sublime scenery along tho line of tho road, and to inspect the wonderful achieve ments of engineering skill in the nortstrtie tion of the greatest of American internal improvements. The tourist is ntiuused be yond expression at what has been done in the face of physical difficulties that would almost have Deen deemed insuperable. Few of your_eade_. are .prob#bly aware tliat the Chesapeake, ami Ohio road is w ltliont 4 s , parallel ih the world, except in the Mount i'cms tunnel. Range alter ritige of moun tains have been tunnelled and vast gorges tilled in, and deep cuts made. No one can _~. behold these...

evenim, rftutc louiMl. THURSDAY BY-WING. Aid. _!l. 1871. Suspended from a Hcunino Bal- I/KJN.—At the close of the afternoon per liiiinanie of (irady's circus in Columbus on Thursday, Mr, Charles Fisher made an as cent in a huge hot-air balloon, or rather the balloon went up with Fisher dangling to a couple of ropes suspended below. Imme diately bin,- smoke was seen in issue from tt point 1111 the side of lite balloon, about one-third (he way tip from the mouth to tin toil. Fxpcrioneed eyes at once detected that the balloon was on tire, but tho __» mint, all tinconsciour. of his danger, went „n wilh his frightlul performance OR the trapeze. When the balloon WH about 1800 le-I in the air, the 11ames were seen to burst suddenly from its side, and simultaneously a cry of horror went up from the great crowd below. Many turned away their cyc>, and one woman fainted, all "expecting that Fisher would at once meet a horrible death. Hut whether it was that the material of the bal loon was ...

I I I l I It IK.MI JONKSBORO. Gro. W. Urahnm Nominated. JoNESBORO, August 23d, 1871. The Republican Senatorial District con vention for this district, comprising the counties of Lunenburg, Prunswiek and Nottoway, met at this place to-day. The two prominent candidates ibr nomi nation before the convention were Win. P. Austin, of Lunenburg, and Capt. George W. Graham, of Nottoway. The convention was very harmonious, and after the usual amount of sparring over the organization, &c., in which the friends of Mr. Austin, who were in the minority, showed admirable tactics, a vote was reaehod, by which Mr. Graham received twenty-five votes, a very large majority, the whole number of delegates being but thirty-two. The announcement of the result was vo ciferously cheered by the friends of Mr. (iraham, and that gentleman being loudly called for, came into the convention, and accepted the nomination in a forcible and appropriate speech. With judicious local nominations, this senatorial dis...

POLITICAL NOTES. The next State election in Vermont will he hold in September, 1872. The present Slate officers were chosen for two years, anil elections hereafter are to be biennial. (ien. lintler has "accepted an invitation" to give his views on the questions which he and Wendell Phillips are striving to inject into politics, at Springfield, on Thursday evening next. The Nebraska Constitutional Convention adjourned sine die on .Saturday. The new constitution is to be voted on on the third Tuesday in September, and, if approved, the officers created under it will be elected on tho first Tuesday in November. The Cincinnati Enquirer is not in favor of a return to specie payments until after the national debt, "contracted in paper cur rency at the rate of less than fiO cents on a ! dollar in gold," has been paid off in a cur rency equally debauched. It says if this course is not adopted "the people will be robbed of about *1,000,000,00(1 in the dif- ' Terence of value." That repudiati...

: ' --' J Manchester News nnil Gossip. II ti hist night at an early hour, a large crowtl assembled al the colored liaptist church, to 111-sir what was to lie said in reference to the Republican party. The meeting was called to order by Cap- ej tain Burr, anil, on motion, Wm. E. .lack on, Esq., ivas called to the chair, ami E. j 11. Kootc elcctt'tl secretary. ~' The meeting was addressed by Abraham n Dyson, Win. 11. Kutcheeon, and T. W. 1 Thompson, of Washhteton city. They gave fair and liberal views of the {Treat t] question of the day and urged the colored t , people the importance of getting the best I men in the Held, it mattered not his color, g or where he was from, so he was for justice and equal rights, and the destruction of the whipping-post, Ac. v It. 11. Wells Jr., was then called to the stand, who spoke but a short time. His .speech was replete with good advice, show- J ing what the Republican party had done for the poor white man, as well as the negro. ( The Democrats w...

duroittfl fftate gottvnnl MONDAY EVENING. AUG. 28, 1871. VIROINIA NEWS. The public schools of Norfolk open on the Ist of September. A mod dog was killed at liberty Thurs day by Mr. A. C. Beckham. Numerous mosquitoes sing the other in habitants of Alexandria to sleep nightly. A new bridge across the "town branch," in Wytheville, is to be built and completed by October. The mill of Captain Hardy, on Big Otter.. near Centerville, was burned to the ground on Wednesday night. The revival at the Methodist church at Liberty is still in progress. About sixty persons have professed religion. The Norfolk Journal says a reward of 875 has boon offered for tlie recovery of the body of Pedro G. Palacio, son of the Mexican Minister to Washington, who was drowned at Fortress Monroe Thursday. At a late hour on Thursday night, says the Norfolk Virginian, the Northern heavens were illuminated by an aurora liorealis, which, for brilliancy and extent, exceeded anything we have seen for a long time. A co...

;i'cmnrj"Stat* I^rnjlL ONDAY EVENING. AUG. 28, 1871. INDI STIIIAI- SIH IETIES. American I'entological Societies. In , ..lir.iniiity witti a resolution adopted tin- last Minting of this National AM - | 'ion. the undersigned hereby give notice at its thirteenth session will lie held in .ssembly Hall, Kijrhth street, between race and Franklin streets, in the city of :ichmond, Virginia, on the Bfh. Tth, and th days of September, 1871. All llorti ultnrfil, Pomologieal, Agricultural, and I'litv kindred institutions in the United Kind llritish Provinces, are invited to lelegations as large as they may deem ient; and all other persons interested i the cultivation of fruits are invited to be aent and take seats in the Convention. Ie coming session promises to be espo y interesting, held as it will be in con unction with the exhibition of the Virginia \unological and Horticultural Society, and it a great central point, farther South than my previous session of the institution. I'liis meeting ...